The power of Ramses III spread over key routes and was marked by rock inscriptions in his name—one has been found in Wadi Rum ...

By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

Animals have played roles that go far beyond their presence in the natural world since the times of ancient civilisations to ...

New research has overturned everything we thought we knew about cat domestication. Forget the theory that cats simply ...

In ancient Egypt, mass cult ritual sacrifices of cats gave rise to the furry felines becoming human companions, according to ...

For decades, researchers have theorized that ancient cats in and around Cyprus —  located southeast of Greece, south of Turkey —most likely followed early farmers and then “gradually got accustomed to ...

“We demonstrate that domestic cats did not spread to Europe with Neolithic farmers, as previously thought,” they write.

Discover how today’s cats might trace their roots back to cult rituals in ancient Egypt.

A newly uncovered ancient Egyptian tomb is shedding light on royalty that once ... the tomb does still have two painted images of the goddesses Isis and Nephthys, who were commonly depicted in ...

an AI-powered way to help people discover if their cats have similar traits as ancient Egyptian royalty. Pet parents can upload a photo of their cat, and the tool will analyze their kitty's ...

Sheba pet food is searching for a domestic cat in the U.S. with links to the ... the two for there to be royal descendants of ancient Egyptian cats among the domestic felines pawing around the ...

He'll even visit the Brooklyn Museum and come face to face with the ancient mummified cat that kicked off Dr. Lyons' groundbreaking study.